Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga64_2cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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RARE FISH OCCURRENCES 89 Fitch about the bass, said that it had been caught "on the bottom in 200 ft of water," and that it "looked like a sand bass but was covered with large yellow spots. Some of the fins were yellowish green at the tips, and the pectoral fin was so thin you could see the body spots beneath it." Armstrong was shown photos of several species of Paralabrax, and unhesitatingly picked P. auroguttatus. Both his verbal description, and the depth of capture fit only P. auroguttatus from among the eastern Pacific members of genus Paralabrax (Walford 1974). Previ- ously, gold spotted bass had been taken as far north as Cedros Island, Baja California. They range south to Cape San Lucas (Outer Gorda Bank) and are abundant throughout much of the Gulf of California. They rarely are caught at depths shallower than 37 m (20 fm) and have been hooked on the bottom in 155 m (85 fm). The largest we have seen was a 710-mm tl fish which was caught in 64 m (35 fm) at the north end of Cedros Island. TRACHIPTERIDAE—RIBBONFISHES Zu cristatus—scalloped ribbonfish (Figure 5) On July 12, 1968, a scalloped ribbonfish, 980 mm SL and weighing 2500 g, was caught in a nighttime purse seine set for bluefin tuna at the "175-fathom spot
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FIGURE 5. Scalloped ribbonfish, Zu cristatus. Upper: Juvenile 213 mm SL, lower: adult 980 mm SL. Photos by Jack W. Schott.

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